(a) The town clerk and assessor or board of assessors in each town shall, no later than the last day of each month, submit to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management all required data concerning each transfer of real property in such town recorded during the preceding month, except each transfer of real property in such town recorded during the months of October, November, December and January shall be submitted no later than sixty days following the last day of the month in which the transfer was recorded, as specified on a form prepared by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management for the purpose of determining the sales-assessment ratio for each town as required in section 10-261. Any municipality which neglects to transmit to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management the data as required by this section shall forfeit one dollar to the state, for each transfer of real property for which such data is required, provided the secretary may waive such forfeiture in accordance with procedures and standards adopted by regulation in accordance with chapter 54.

(b) A town shall not be required to submit data as required under subsection (a) of this section in an assessment year in which a revaluation becomes effective unless a town is implementing a phase-in pursuant to section 12-62c.

(P.A. 77-478, S. 3, 5; 77-614, S. 139, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 86-351, S. 2, 3; P.A. 87-115, S. 7, 8; P.A. 95-283, S. 30, 68; P.A. 97-244, S. 6, 13; P.A. 11-48, S. 193; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 170.)

History: P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 substituted commissioner of revenue services for tax commissioner, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 86-351 substituted “secretary of the office of policy and management” for “commissioner of revenue services” as the person to receive all required data concerning each transfer of real property, effective October 1, 1986, and applicable to the October 1, 1986, assessment list in any town and each assessment list thereafter; P.A. 87-115 required that transfers of real property recorded in October, November, December and January be submitted to the office of policy and management no later than 60 days following the last day of the month in which the transfer was recorded and that any municipality which neglects to transmit the data as required shall forfeit $1.00 to the state for each transfer for which data is required and that the secretary of the office of policy and management may waive such forfeiture in accordance with regulations to be adopted and authorized said secretary to extend the time for submission of the data in any year in which a revaluation as required under Sec. 12-62 becomes effective for the assessment list, effective May 11, 1987, and applicable to transfers of real property occurring on or after October 1, 1987; P.A. 95-283 amended Subsec. (b) to replace board of tax review with board of assessment appeals, effective July 6, 1995; P.A. 97-244 replaced former Subsec. (b), which had allowed extensions of time for data submission, with new Subsec. providing that towns are not required to submit data in an assessment year in which a revaluation becomes effective, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (b) to add provision re phase-in implementation pursuant to Sec. 12-62c(b), effective June 13, 2011; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2012.

Cited. 195 C. 24; 228 C. 699.